Jun 21, 2026 · 36 min · 12 segments
Dr. Melka joins Healthful Woman to talk about advanced maternal age, or AMA. In this episode, she explains the history of identifying AMA and terms like “elderly pregnancy” or “geriatric pregnancy,”…
Stephanie MelkaGuest
So this is something I get from a lot of people, a lot of patients, a lot of friends that say-
A lot of people, they, they hear all these things about how you can't get pregnant, or at age 35 suddenly you're too old to get pregnant, and I have a lot of friends that are in their, you know, 30s, 40s, that just ask me, like, what do, what do I think about it.
It's unfortunate because you'll also hear things, you know, like elderly pregnancy-
Like, that's, that's a big move to, [laughs] to tell someone at 35 that's a geriatric pregnancy.
So this is something I get from a lot of people, a lot of patients, a lot of friends that say-
A lot of people, they, they hear all these things about how you can't get pregnant, or at age 35 suddenly you're too old to get pregnant, and I have a lot of friends that are in their, you know, 30s, 40s, that just ask me, like, what do, what do I think about it.
It's unfortunate because you'll also hear things, you know, like elderly pregnancy-
Like, that's, that's a big move to, [laughs] to tell someone at 35 that's a geriatric pregnancy.
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